It doesn’t help us now, but this can be prevented in the future (for TiVo owners anyway) by setting your season pass to record all including duplicates. A show like Broadchurch airs so seldomly, it shouldn’t clog up your DVR.
I do have my DVR set to record both types of episodes. I’m thinking DirecTV just didn’t show episode 1.6. Did any Dopers with DirecTV see it live (or know for sure whether *Broadchurch *was broadcast at all on Weds, Sept 11)?
There’s been a change in what is posted in the onscreen guide from what I said yesterday regarding the plots for upcoming episodes (to be recorded). Originally the plot for Weds, Sept 18, read, “A new murder suspect comes to light.” The new guide blurbettes read as follows:
Those look like episodes 1.7 and 1.8 to me. I guess DirecTV SKIPPED episode 1.6. Fuckers.
I just watched episode six, so
That bald asshole doesn’t shoot it with the crossbow?
No. I promise. It’s a big tease that goes nowhere.
ThelmaLou, using information from the next epsiode preview:
The dog is shown alive and well in the scenes from the next episode, so no it would appear he doesn’t.
I missed it on DirectTV too. I picked it up for $2 off Amazon this afternoon. Its down on my record list, so I just figured something else had priority.
If anyone is interested in reading a thread on a UK forum that unfolded as the show was first broadcast … fwiw, in the three sequential threads on this forum there were 8,500 posts during the eight weeks - people got hellishy obsessed and analyzed everything from every possible angle.
If you read sequentially there are obv. no spoilers, and you can equally skip forward a few thousand posts to get to the next episode Just thought it might be interesting given the lack of discussion here:
Part 1: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1797469&highlight=broadchurch
Part 2: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1815804&highlight=broadchurch
Part 3: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1819906&highlight=broadchurch
It was at the **TOP **of my priority list (item #1, in fact) AND I had it set to record both old and new episodes.
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To get back to discussing the show itself:
Like so many shows I watch these days, there aren’t too many likeable characters, except I *really *like Miller, the Broadchurch detective. I love the way she puts her quirky-jerky DI in his place while still acknowledging his authority. I like her relationship with her husband (I hope he doesn’t turn out to be the murderer 
). It’s interesting to watch her struggle with each new bit of information about the people she’s known for years, while still maintaining her professionalism and commitment to the investigation.
What else has this actress been in that I need to check out?
Why does the lady editor call her cub reporter “petal”? Is that some anglicism from literature that I’m not familiar with? Or is the closed captioning just spelling it wrong?
That’s Olivia Colman, who has mostly been known for comedic roles before now - well, known by me, that is. She’s has a major role in Peep Show, with her Cambridge mates David Mitchell and Rob Webb; she also has bit parts in their sketch comedy show, That Mitchell and Webb Look. Lovely, smart comedy.
“Petal” is a fairly common term of endearment in British English.
Geez, I LOVE it. I’m going to start using it with my dogs and cats. And work up to using it with people.
If anyone still hasn’t seen episode six, it’s scheduled to be rebroadcast on BBC America on Wednesday at 5am Eastern Time, with episode seven scheduled for 10pm Eastern Time.
We’re finally caught up, and while the Suspect Of The Week model is a bit tedious, the acting carries it. But I have to say that the Scottish accent is nearly impossible for me to comprehend at times. I note that the popularity of the series must be on the rise, as they’ve gone from zit cream and hair removal ads to Lincoln and drug ads, and more of them on commercial breaks. But that’s what the DVR is for.
My bold
That’s why God invented captioning.
I read this a lot on this board, “I can’t understand what so-and-so is saying,” “What was the line at the end of <whatever>?” Put on the captioning and you will not wonder!
On which subject …
You know something, they might also have done that with a show of the same series genre … it’s on the tip of my tongue …
This, of course, happens because of people like Chefguy who won’t turn the damned captions on. 
Not an easy watch but … earnest, and great performances:
My fav is a one-hour stand alone from a series called Accused, she was in S2E2 Mo’s Story - if Accused is on Netflix or whatever, that whole thing is of an outrageously high standard. She got a Best Supporting BAFTA for that:
aaaaaand while we’re on Youtube, she was in this quite cute sitcom:
Honestly, it never occurs to me. :smack: Does captioning work if I’ve recorded it? Prolly not.
Yes.